Sweating is as healthy as it is an irritation. Especially, when a person sweats profusely it is more of a dilemma. This excessive sweating, in medical world is known as Hyperhidrosis, a medical condition in which a person sweats a lot. Now this can crop up at crucial places like arms, palms, feet or face. When a person is suffering from excessive sweating in the facial area it is more likely to be a facial hyperhydrosis. This occurs due to the energetic approach of the sympathetic nervous system helping the regulation of the sweat secretion from the sweat glands.
Facial hyperhidrosis starts with the face, but can gain access into the other neighboring areas like the scalp, the neck and the nape. When the scalp is affected with the hyperhidrosis, due to dampness, there is more room for dirt and oil to get accumulated; giving rise to dandruff. As a result, hair becomes sticky, oily, and unmanageable making you look dead beat. Frequent showering is required to keep feeling fresh. Another peril affect is the occurrence of facial blushing due to facial hyperhidrosis.
Facial hypergydrosis can be irritating as it can occur without any incitation of an emotional unbalance or anxiety. Especially, when you are attending any lunch sessions, or having a business meet, it becomes quite embarrassing if you are dripping profusely. Also makes you look lethargic and tired.
Facial hyperhydrosis can also heave social issues. You feel embarrassed as you are dripping and even tissues over tissues don’t help. This can also affect your confidence and you feel discouraged and left out. You gradually become very restless and cannot focus on your attentiveness, annoyance level rises and you land up getting migraines. Hyperhidrosis also affects your eyes; they become red and start burning.
In the medical world, facial hyperhidrosis is not a precarious condition, as it doesn’t lead to grave infirmity. However, due to excessive sweating you are bound to get some unkind remarks making you feel sad and distraught. Don’t worry, you can surely find yourself cured. There are various treatments available for hyperhydrosis, which can be valuable to sustain your social life.
Healing – facial hyperhidrosis: Medication can be useful to cure facial sweating, and surgeries like sympathectomy which can be both useful for facial blushing and sweating. Also, sympathectomy needs different approaches depending upon the severity of hyperhydrosis. Botox, can be a very efficient treatment but the only problem that arises with Botox is, it sometimes becomes little expensive. Also, the effect lasts for few months, so you have to go on for continuous shots in a regular period of time, to reduce the facial hyperhidrosis.
Although people are appalled by the use of surgeries because it is done on the face, medication and drugs are the most, popular cure used for facial hyperhidrosis. The reactions of the medication may vary from individual to individual and also sometimes, it can be complicated to decide which medication suits your skin type.
Tue, Mar 10, 2009
Excess Sweat